When I was an undergrad we had a trebuchet building competition between a team of mechanical engineers, and a team of physicists. Believe if or not, the mechan

When I was an undergrad we had a trebuchet building competition between a team of mechanical engineers, and a team of physicists. Believe if or not, the mechanical engineers were the ones who spent the entire building time making CAD models and calculating torques while the physicists just said "it is approximately a wheel" and start building immediately. The physicists finished, and it worked beautifully on the first try with no tuning. That part was just luck for sure, but it was still beautiful to watch.